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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90720	Sectaries vnmasked and confuted. By the treating upon divers points of doctrine in debate betwixt the Presbyterialists and sectarists, Anabaptists, Independents, and Papists. / By George Palmer wel-wisher to a warrantable uniformity in godly religious exercises.	Palmer, George, b. 1596 or 7.	1647 (1647)	Wing P229; Thomason E396_27; ESTC R201662	58,190	61

have laboured to prove and maintain for truth Fourthly I am ready to receive a confutation in any thing wherein you can with either Scripture or Reason confute mee provided that you doe not argue against Scripture where a Babe may not onely read but as easily conclude what is truth Sixthly perhaps my plainnesse in phrase and method may dislike some that have more learning in the Tongues and other Liberall Arts to display truth with I intreat them to note what my end is in this my paines not to come with excellency of speech if I had it I aime at truth of matter for it is that which we have need of in these times Seventhly I beleeve that they are the vulgar sort of people that have most need of helpe in these Points I treat of for the Learned I hope there are not many of them that doe much miscarry in these things nor will dissent from the substantialls in them Eightly if I chance to come out a second time it may hap I may sore higher then some looke for but I would first appeare to the weakest for they are those that the wolves doe watch to make a prey of chiefly therefore I would endeavour to secure them and then I passe very little to meet with both Fox Wolfe and all the Frogs of Rome And so much I beleeve you will conclude upon when you see their skins so pulled about their eares as in this Booke they lye if a course be but timely taken with them they will rather be gone from us then stay to be so mangled as here they be Ninthly I intreat you to bee advised by mee in this one thing especially viz. when any Point is treated upon in any Booke wherein the Text to prove a Doctrine by is not expressed at large by the Author but the place named by figures onely there take good heed lest you too soone make a conclusion of a supposed truth before you looke in the Text it selfe for many Writers doe not rehearse the sentence it self but name the place and so goe on in argument with it and many times the Reader makes a conclusion as the Author of the booke doe conceive to bee the truth although it bee many times false therefore it were good that all Writers would rehearse the sentence of the Scripture they quote to prove any thing by at least in a matter that is of any great weight as in this Book I doe Another thing I intreat of you which is this that you will read seriously and minde onely that you read free from distraction or trouble of minde as you read and read through a Point from the beginning to the end when you read And when you have a Booke whose matter is sure Divinity and short for memory and plaine for capacity keep that by you to view continually I intreat the Reader to accept of this my good will to doe him good and by his so doing I shall bee well satisfied and bee ready in any way I may or can be able to be Your Servant George Palmer Canterbury June 11. 1647. Sectaries unmasked and confuted NO separation ought to bee in the Church of Christ nor divisions or forsaking the assemblies of our selves together in the publick Ordinances of godly and religious exercises Rom. 16. 17. Mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the Doctrine which yee have learned and avoid them c. 1 Cor. 1. 10. Now I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that yee all speak the same thing and that there bee no divisions among you but that yee bee perfectly joyned together in the same minde and in the same judgement And in Chap. 3. 3. Yee are yet carnall for whereas there is among you envie and strife and divisions are ye not carnall c. And Heb. 10. 24 25. Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good workes Not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is c. 1 Cor. 12. 24 25 26. God hath tempered the body together having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked that there should be no Schisme in the body but that the members should have the same care one of another that they should suffer one with another By all these places of Scriptures it doth appear that the Church should have no divisions viz. Christs body I say it should not have divisions for although at some times it had some divisions yet the Apostles did alwayes endeavour to reclaime them from such divisions as you may see by these texts of Scriptures here now quoted But it is to bee now considered what kind of Divisions those were at least chiefly that the Apostle doth disclaim which was amongst those members hee then did dehort these Corinthians from and how farre he then for the present did condescending to their weaknesse permit them liberty of conscience for as I said hee did endeavour to settle them in one way of religious exercises void of division though for the present hee permitted them some liberty of conscience in some things that were of least concernment and not destructive to the whole Body or indanger it to an absolute confusion And to this end I will first look over the Texts already quoted and produce what I am able from them and after that produce Reasons to shew the inconveniences that comes by the divisions that are amongst Christians in their religious exercises Briefly and also the happines that we may attain unto by a godly unity in affection and next after I will by Arguments endeavour to shew that this unity in affection is much forwarded by a uniformity in religious exercises where it may be attained in a warrantable way and next whether we may not now in these our dayes attain unto these things without offending at least much any good conscience though weak And then I will hang forth some signes or characters by which wee may collect which party is in most fault in their conversations between those that stand for the Presbyterialists government or at least nearest it and those that dissent from it and proceed to the Independent ways which they call Congregationall that so we may by that meanes see our hearts more clearly For doubtlesse many of us that are assured that we have some goodnes in truth in us are not so forward and apt to espy our sinister ends or by-respects and that it is a great tryall to a man who having once interessed himself to maintaine an opinion to undergoe a disgrace by renouncing it afterwards though he be convinced in his judgement And I will briefly note some things that may move us to give God the glory and our selves take some shame seeing wee all deserve it And lastly indeavour to perswade those that stand for the Presbyteriall government to imbrace those that renounce the other wayes or any sins

whatsoever without casting their sins in their teeth for in many things wee sin all The first Text quoted is Rom. 16. 17. Now I beseech you Brethren marke them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which yee have learned and avoid them for they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and faire speeches deceive the hearts of the simple The scope of these Texts is to prevent divisions in the Church of these Romans which in some was already begun and that division was in their not assembling themselves according to the Apostles institution and that in some pretence that all that Paul had taught was not an absolute truth for they divided contrary to the doctrine which they had received saith the Text for in some case a man may divide but he must have some warrantable cause but the end of this their division was not to serve Christ Jesus but their own bellies for so saith the Text and this must be done in or by some faire colourable demeanor viz. good words and fair speeches saith the Text but all this was but to deceive saith the Apostle and because they could not delude the wise therefore they would tamper with the ignorant for so saith the Text they deceive the hearts of the simple from hence I note also that these were false Teachers that did make this division for their own private gain viz. to suck from the poore silly people in way of pretence to teach them the truth for they did it to serve their belly You shal see more of them in some of the next Scriptures following The next Scripture quoted was 1 Cor 1. 10. Now I beseech you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that yee all speake the same thing and that there be no divisions among you but that you be perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgment In this Scripture the Apostle perswades these Corinthians from division amongst the common hearers there chiefly at least and shewes some cause of it in them and that was for want of a mind and judgement well informed and therefore they did much contend with each other as in the 11 verse you may see And therefore they were partiall in respecting and affecting of their Teachers without just cause for those Preachers were so knowing that they did not differ in their judgements in those things they taught but this was their carnality in affecting the Preacher more for his wisdome in words and phrases c. rather then for the truth of matter as is very likely and cleare in the 17 verse for there hee saith he did not preach the Gospel with wisdome of words that is chiefly lest the Crosse of Christ should be made of none effect But by what hath been observed here chiefly for our purpose is that there ought to have been no divisions amongst them seeing there was no cause and in Chap. 3. ver. 3. he did also forbid divisions and tells them the reason of it viz. they were carnall and lookt upon their Teachers more then to Gods word and working by the Ministery of their Preachers as is to be seen in the fifth verse and truly I must note one thing more from the words of the third verse and that is this The reason why men have not their judgement better informed is because they doe not renounce their carnall corruptions for the more a man desi●eth to renounce his corruptions the better understanding he shall have in the Word of God Yee are carnall said hee But I passe to the two other Scriptures named for they are those which I doe most intend for my chiefe purpose The first of them is Heb. 10. 24 25. these are the words of the Text Not forsaking the assembling of our selves together as the manner of some is c. In this verse the Apostle pre-admonisheth them to beware that they bee not drawne away from their publick Assemblies in their godly exercises by the examples or enticing of some that had already forsaken them By the Apostles expression in this verse it seems those that did forsake did not shew forth any notorious evill ayme or end for the present wherefore they did forsake the assembling of themselves together with those that the Apostle here forewarneth therefore those might have some close colourable pretence which as yet did not breake out but some evill ayme they had for the Apostle noteth them and forewarneth the rest Selah Surely it was an evill in them for the Apostles Constitution was good in the government he had established amongst them it seemes here also that amongst the Church of God divisions are naught for the Apostle endeavours the contrary what ever the intent be of those that forsake and divide without some apparent and weighty cause The next place is 1 Cor. 12. 24 25 26. I will name but part of the first verse and then all the rest these are the words God hath tempered the body together having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked that there should bee no schisme in the body but that the members should have the same care one of another And whether one member suffer all the members suffer with it or one member be honoured all the members rejoyce with it the Apostle in these verses excellently alludeth to the body of a man to shew the constitution or frame of Christs mysticall body viz. his Church on earth that as the body of man consists of divers members so doth the Church of Christ and have their severall offices of care and good performances one unto the other and if any member suffer the residue are sensible of its wants of prosperity and if it bee well and healthfull the residue of the members of the body rejoyce with it because the honouring of one member is the honouring of the whole as a gold-ring on the finger is esteemed an ornament to the whole body c. Thus it is with the mysticall body of Christ saith the Apostle in ver. 27 28. they are to take care one of another as the corporall body of man the which it cannot doe if it bee divided member from member therefore saith the Apostle in ver. 24. God hath tempered the body together c. and in ver. 25. he tells us that the end of Gods joyning the members together thus is that there should be no Schism in the body but that the members should have the same care one of another thus it is with the mysticall body of Christ if the members be divided then is the body spirituall weakned and in great imperfection and danger especially if many members be either lame or quite divided from it Thus you see by all these Texts of holy Scriptures that Schismes Divisions and forsakings the Assemblies of Gods people in the onely way of Religious exercises is utterly forbid and the